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Year 5 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELA1507

knowing that complex sentences make connections between ideas, such as: to provide a reason, for example 'He jumped up because the bell rang.'; to state a purpose, for example 'She raced home to confront her brother.'; to express a condition, for example …

Achievement Standard English Year 5

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

ACELY1705

Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features

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ACELY1705 | Content Descriptions | Year 5 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1513

learning that many complex words were originally hyphenated but are now written without a hyphen, for example ‘uncommon, ‘renew’, ‘email’ and ‘refine’

Elaboration (2) ACELT1610

examining the narrative voice in texts from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions, which include perspectives of animals and spirits, about how we should care for the Earth, for example reflecting on how this affects significance, interpretation …

Elaboration (2) ACELY1796

choosing vocabulary and sentence structures for particular purposes including formal and informal contexts, to report and explain new concepts and topics, to offer a point of view and to persuade others

Elaboration (2) ACELY1702

using word identification, self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies to access material on less familiar topics, skimming and scanning to check the pertinence of particular information to students’ topic and task

Elaboration (2) ACELY1704

using vocabulary, including technical vocabulary, appropriate to purpose and context

Elaboration ACELT1610

identifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experiences the story) in a literary work, discussing the impact of first person narration on empathy and engagement

Elaboration ACELY1698

identifying the narrative voice (the person or entity through whom the audience experiences the story) in a literary work, discussing the impact of first person narration on empathy and engagement

Elaboration ACELA1502

recognising that a bare assertion (for example 'It's the best film this year') often needs to be tempered by: using the 'impersonal it' to distance oneself (for example 'It could be that it is the best film this year'); recruiting anonymous support (for …

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